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2024-02-06 11:44:00 ET Summary With the market surging higher since the beginning of the year, bullish investors are drooling over the next significant milestone for the market – S&P Index 5000. Another interesting facet about the current market is that as the S&P I...
2024-02-04 04:16:21 ET Summary Large-cap stocks have seen a significant rally, but history suggests a possible pullback in the next four weeks. The Invesco S&P 500 Top 50 ETF is overbought and has weak seasonal trends. XLG is heavily invested in the Information Technology ...
2024-02-04 01:45:00 ET Summary Since early 2022, the FED lifted the federal funds rate by 5.25% to curb inflation, triggering speculation from pundits over the economic impact and future path of rate increases. Recently, the Fed noted that inflation has been tempered by restrictiv...
2024-01-30 04:42:00 ET Summary S&P 500 continued rising slowly to record a series of new highs for another four days before dipping 3.19 points to close out the trading week ending on Friday, 26 January 2024 at 4,890.97. The trajectory of the S&P 500 is much more consisten...
2024-01-22 03:13:00 ET Summary Friday, January 19th, 2024, saw the first trade above the January ’22 high of 4,815, with the S&P 500 ultimately closing at 4,839.81, or the first all-time high in 24 months. The all-time high came on no new economic data, or critical earn...
2024-01-21 06:15:00 ET Summary The leadership in the S&P 500 has contracted, with the "Magnificent 7" being replaced by the "Troubling 3" (Microsoft, Meta, and Nvidia). The Troubling 3 stocks account for nearly all of the gains in the S&P 500 this year. The market is b...
2024-01-18 11:43:00 ET Summary Lagging indicators suggest that all is well in the economy, however, more forward-looking factors present reasons for concern. It takes an active approach to stock selection to find investments that are well positioned for the road ahead. Whether...
2024-01-15 04:45:00 ET Summary The forward 4-quarter estimate ended the week at $243.52, down from last week’s $243.98. The S&P 500 earnings yield (EY) fell to 5.09% this week, from last week’s 5.19%. It’s actually another lighter week of earnings...
2024-01-09 01:01:00 ET Summary The S&P 500 index remains just 2.1% below its 3 January 2022 all-time high closing value of 4,796.56. The major news prompting that change is uncertainty on the timing and direction of the Fed's next change in the Federal Funds Rate. The Fed ...
2024-01-02 10:42:00 ET Summary The S&P 500 is two years into what we expect to be a very long, interesting trip to nowhere. The cumulative total return of the S&P 500 lagged the cumulative total return of Treasury bills for close to 50 years of the 84-year period from 1929...